Callahan
is one of the few men alive today who understand and developHensel's
work
further. See next file This excerpt consists of a chapter called
'Bread
from stones' he named it so in honour of Hensel,
who wrote a book with that title; it is in (re)print by Callahan's own
publisher: Acres, USA, the full adress of which you may find below
(in this teint of yellow) and in my bibliography
file.

Table of contents in detail:october 86 Acres, USA article by
Phil Callahan along with relevant book ads alluded to above.A
page or two from what was then called'soil
remineralization a network news letter',issue
fall/winter 86, containing the following articles:composting
with rockdust by Piet Bouter, (that's me)Dairy
farming with rock dust by Georg Abermann;an
'Ice age or Solar age Bulletin' updatesome
news about grindersBack to Callahan for some info
on his patentedand reasonable priced measuring
deviceand finally the Glossary that
goes with the book "Paramagnetism"8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888Tripod
tool Nedstat installed end of nov 98 but not correctly till july 99
File
created in nov, last changed in dec 98aim can-,
con- and reaction(s) to: poetpiet@hotbot.comthis
hyper-click-link takes you to the main switching yard

Let's begin with the two ads
which appeared alongside this (oct 94) article, then a preview, for an
earlier Callahan book sold by the wonderful Acres bookstore (hundreds in
stock)Here at Last! And Well Worth TheWait!EXPLORING
the SPECTRUM by Philip S. CallahanA considerable
number of persons who love nature are turned off by the word electronic.
Any naturalist, amateur or professional must have a "down to earth" understanding
of the electromagnetic spectrum. This book explains visible light spectrum,
invisible high-energy nuclear and low-energy infrared and radio portions
of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Soft cover, 170 pages.Acres
U.S.A. Bookstore P.O.Box 8800
Metairie, LA 70011-8800 (504) 889-2100
FAX: (504) 889-2777Bread from Stones has been
republished in English by Acres U.S.A. It is available for S10.00
(plus $1.00 postage and handling U.S.; $2.00 foreign).

How to farm properly as god intended(with paramagnetic elf forces).

'The usual subdivision
of science into chemical, physical, botanica!, and of herdepurtments, necessary
for the sake ofclarity and convenience in teaching, soonbegan to dominate
the outlook and workof these institutions. The problems ofagriculture_a
vast biological complex_began to be subdivided muchthe . same way as the
teaching of science. Here it was not justiJied, for the subject dealt with
could never be divuded, it being beyond the capacity of the plant or animalto
sustain its life processes in separate phases. It eats, drinks, breathes,
sleeps, digests, moves, sickens, suffers or recovers, and reacts to all
its surroundings, friends and enemies in the course of twenty-four-hours.
Neither can any of its operations be carried on apart from all the others;
in fact, agriculture deals with organized entities, and agriculture research
is bound to recognize this truth at the starting point of its investigations,

In doing this,
but adopting the artificial divisions of science as at present, established
conventional research on a subject like agriculture was bound to involve
itself and magnificently has got itself bogged down. An immense amount
of work is being done, each tiny portion is a separate compartment; a whole
army of investigators has been recruited; a regular 'proffession been invented.
The absurdity of team work has been devised as a remedy for the fragmentation
which need never have occurred. This is nonsensical. Agricultural investigation
is so difficult that it will always demand a very special combination of
qualities which from the nature of the case is rare. A real investigator
for such a subject can never be created by the mere accumulation of the
special and rare.Nevertheless,
the administration claims that agricultural research is now organized,
having substituted that dreary precept for the soul-shaking principle of
that essential freedom needed by the seeker after truth. The natural universe,
which is one, has been halved, quartered, fractionized, and woe betide
the investigator who looks at any segment other than his own! Departmentalism
is recognized in its worst and last form when councils and super-committees
are established; they grade(?) the latest excercises, whose purpose is
to prevent so-called overlapping... strictly.... to hold each man to his
allotted narrow path and above all to enable the bureaucrat to dodge his
responsibilities.The Soil and Health, Sir
AlbertHoward

BREAD FROM STONES

Years ego while I was enjoying
leisure travels in Ireland, I picked up a book titled"Farming end Gardening
for Health and Disease," by Sir Albert Howard. It was read, or I should
say scanned, so quickly that I retained only dim memories of its content.
What I do remember is that it dwelled on farming techniques in India that
have been in use since ancient celtic times by the Irish.

My bible for pre-World War
II Irish farming is the masterpiece '1rish Heritage"by the astute professor
of Queens University, Belfast, E. Estyne Evans. It is the only book I have
two copies of-one in my lab, and one in my den.

I had, between 1944 end 1946,
before deadly chemical farming intruded, lived in Fermanagh County, Northern
Ireland on the Donegal border. I was, in truth, asergeant in the Arrny
Air Corps, but may as well have been a 19th-Century potato farrner, for
I was far more interested in the naturel history and agriculture of the
beautiful Erne Valley than I was in the exactitudes of my job as a low-frequency
radio range technician.

Liebig, a laboratory chemist,
equated life with NKP. I doubt very much if as alad he ever chewed on a
fresh piece of grass on his back while cloud watching. He published Chemistry
in theApplication to Agriculture around 1840. His book preceded
the great book on soilformation by Charles Darwin titled The Formation
of Vegetable Mould Through theActions of Worms, with Observations of Their
Habits. This book shines as Darwin's real aura of genius, not bis treatise
on the unprovable but elegant theory of evolution.God probably has a hundred
differentways of creating life, evolution being only one among many. Like
creationism, it is a reductionist either/or science. Because Darwin, like
Liebig end other biological chemists, overlooked the elegant work of the
two T's, John Tyndell and Nikola Tesla, they failed miserably in their
understanding of naturel forces. It remained for another chemist, Julius
Hensel, to point the way with his beautifully titled book, Bread from
Stones. He also had little use for the concepts of von Liebig.
He talks about von Liebig's"mistake":
Ideas that are meaningful develop slowly. Sometime, long after I left Ireland,
I came to realize that plants, insects and soil (all loves of mine), and
the nebulous photons of electronic systems were all in one. Everything
is connected to everything to everything else, especially by the electromagnetic
spectrum.
If I had really paid much attention to what Sir Albert was writing about
I would have, even in my younger days, realized that his life's work was
built on a solid foundation and keen understanding of the inner conectedness
of all of nature. He had little use for the reductionist method eof modern
science. I might add, neither do I! More than any other agricultural scientist
of his time he understood that reductionism, like communism, might wel
lead to the destruction of viable agriculture.
Physics is the science that connects chemistry to biology. That being so,
a scientist that does not have a basic understanding of physics is more
ignorant of life than a leaping flea hopper that at least knows it must
jump (physics)to feed (chemistry) on a plant (biology).
I was delighted when in the mid 1970s I learned that my editor Devin Garrity
of the Devin-Adair Company had published Sir Albert's book in the United
States. He gave me a copy of the book under the new title
I'he Soil
and Health. Needless to say I studied it more thoroughly this time
around.
Soil end Health is, of course, about the biological-chemical make up of
agriculture. It is one of the original treatises on compostmg and crop
rotation. It also talks about the mess that the German chemist Justus von
Liebig stared in agriculture with his "pure" chemistry concept of plant
growht.
Liebig, a laboratory chemist, equated life with NKP. I doubt very much
if as a lad he ever chewed on a freshpiece of grass on his back while cloud
watching.
Liebig; published Chemistry in the Application to Agriculture around
1840. His look preceded the great book on soil formation by Charles Darwin
titled The Formations of Vegetable Mould Through the Actions of Worms,
with Observations of Their Habits. Ihis book shines as Darwin'sreal
aura of genius, not bis treatise on the unprovable but elegant theory of
evolution. God probably has a hundred different ways of creating life,
evolution being only one among many.
Like creationism, it is a reductionist either-or science. Because Darwin,
like Liebig end other biological chemists, overlooked the elegant work
of the two T's, John Tyndell and Nikola Tesla, they failed miserably in
their understanding of natural forces. It remained for another chemist,
Julius Hensel, to point the way with his beautifully titled book, Bread
from Stones. He also had little use for the concepts of von Liebig. He
talks about von Liebig's "mistake":

Very simply, Liebig was the
first agricultural chemist. He found that the ashes which remained from
grairz mainly consisted of phosphate of potassa. From this he concluded
that phosphate ofpotassa must be restored to the soz1, and that was very
one-sided Liebig had forgotten so take the straw into account,in which
only small quantities of phosphoric acid are found, because this substance
during the process of maturing passes from the stalk into the grain. If
he had not only calculated the seed but also the roots and the stalles,
he would havefound what we know at this day, that inthe whole plants there
is much more lime and magnesia as potassa and soda, and thal phosphoric
acid forms only the tenth part of the sum of these basic constituents.
Unfortunately Liebig also was of the opinion that potassa and phosphoric
acud have to be restored to the soil as such, while anyone might have concluded
that instead of the exhausted soil we must supply earthly matter from which
nothing tras been grown. Such untouched earthly material of primitive strength
we get by pulverizing rocks into which potassa, soda, lime, magnesia, manganese
and iron are combined with silica, alumina, phosphoric acid, fluorine and
sulfur. Among these substances fluotine, which is found in mica -minerals,
has been neglected by Liebig, by all his followers, and has never been
contained in any artificial fertilizer. But as we know from later investigations
that fluorine is regularly found even in white and yellowbirds' eggs, we
must acknowledge it is something essential to the organism. Chickens get
this fluorine and other earthy constituents when they have a chancc topick
up little slivers of granite, Where this is denied them. as in a wooden
hen house, they succumb to chicken cholera and chicken diphtheria. The
key to Bread from Stones is contained in this one paragraph where he says,
'we must supply earthy material" and laler "little slivers of granite."

His use of the word granite
implies that he not only knew that good soil is made from eroded
stone but also which kind of stone was best suited to a viable agriculture.Because he was a chemist,
like von Liebig he emphasized the chemical constituents of stone, and therein
lies the crux of what this and subsequent articles are about. Itis a dismaying
fact that there are some rocks, including some granite, that when ground
up and added to the soil (they may contain all the afore mentioned chemicals)
accomplish little for plant growth.The simple and irrefutable
fact is that if the force, called
in the physics handbook paramagnetism, is
not in the stone, although
certain proportions of the chemicals are,
little
benefit will accrue.This series is about that
force, one among many, but the one most often missing from poor soil around
the world.Poor soil produces sick
plants, and since insects are scavengers they are attracted to both old
and sick plants. They are nature's recyclers.
Crop plants should be young as they are harvested to eat. If they are young
and healthy, insect losses are almost nil. If they are young and sick,
losses from insects can be devastating.We will deal then with growing
healthy plants, but it does not imply excluding the need to learn about
the other two necessities of agriculture: composting and soil organisms.Books on composting and
soil organisms abound. Add them to these words, and all of the ingredients
of a flourishing and viable agriculture will attain.Composting, Organisms of
the soil, and the Paramagnetic force (COP) might well prevent a worldwide
famine from destroying mankind.One last thought; this is
for farmers, but it equally applies to all of an ecological mindset who,
in positions of leadership, are attempting to save our wilderness and our
wildlife from destruction.Because plante are healthy
and do not attract hoards of insects does not mean that insectivorous wild
creatures, e.g.birds, will suffer. The hoards of redwinged blackbirds that
descend on corn infested with corn earworm larvae not only further damage
the corn, but would live more beneficially in the cattail marshes freefrom
insecticide-contaminated crops.One half of the population
of North America wood warblers has disappeared over the last twenty years-probably
due in part to insecticides veld freely by the American agribusiness industry
to the Central and South American Countries to which North America warblers
migrate. There are few government controls in certain southern regions
on the spread of insecticides by the tons. There are more pounds per acre
utilized worldwide now than when Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring,
that
epic treatise on the subject.Insecticides and weed killers
are the modern curse of environmental health, we do not and never did need
them. The simple fact is they both destroy viable soil. A healthy soil
ecology through healthy agriculturemeans a healthy world population reinforced
by that most democratic foundation: the family farm.

VOLCANOESSometimes rocks speak quite
sharply. Whenever there's sufficient keat, pressure, and water to melt
great masses of rocks, they may be expected to intrude the sediments above
them. Quite frequently this hot material reaches the surface with explosive
force as expanding steam produces violent volcanic eruptions._Dance
of the Continents, John W. flarrington

Science believes that agriculture
began thousands of years before Christ somewhere in the Middle East. This
may well be true of man's part in agriculture, but God's part began when
he inventedthe volcano.I well remember the newspaper
accounts of the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington. It is a twin
cone to beautiful Mount Hood in Oregon.Earthquakes began on March
20, 1980, but the real boom occurred on May 18, 1980. David Johnston, the
volcano expert with the U.S. Geological Survey, radioed his headquarters
a short message:

"Vancouver! Vancouver! This
is it." The Volcano lover Harry Truman, a mountainman of the region,
refused to take a warning and perished in an old mine tunnel. David Johnston
also perished.Mount St. Helens erupted
with a force calculated to equal fifteen hundred Hiroshima-size atomic
bombs. Over one and a half cubic miles of rock were blown across the Washington
countryside, lowering the peak from a height of 9,677 feet to a height
of 8,377 feet_1,300 feet of the cone disappeared! .

The blast was heard two hundred
miles away and volcanic ash was blown downwind in a broad belt that covered
the United States from Mississippi in the South to Canada in the North.My own experiences with
volcanoes involve three climbs of Mt. ffigi and many days in Pompeii dreaming
about what it must have been like to survive such an explosion. Pliny the
elder, another volcanic observer, died in that eruption.In Japan my sister Ann end
I came close to perishing in the eruption of Mount Asama neer Karuizawa
in the Japanese Alps. That mountain, so we were told on the day of our
projected climb, last erupted 500 years ego and was highly unlikely to
erupt on the day of our planned climb. It did!Fortunately I had been called
back to Tokyo just prior to the eruption. That mountain spewed a column
of ash thousands of feet high across the Japanese Alps. The explosion was
heard over a hundred miles away. My sister was left alive to have three
beautiful daughters and I to write a book on paramagnetism.At that time, 1944, it was
little understood by me that volcanoes are not disasters teut blessings
in disguise. No volcanoes, no agriculture, for volcanic ashend rock are
the guts of good soil.What I best remember in
the newspaper reports of Mount St. Helens was the great concern about the
loss of crop land and forests buried in ash and the fact the pigs and snakes
seemed to know it was about to occur. To this day no one has decoded the
earthquake-volcano mechanism of pig and snake prophecy, but in this book
we can learn at least one of the great benefits of volcanic explosions
and about the magic ash that it puts down across the countryside.
A few years after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, articles began to appear,
most written in adjectives of great surprise, detailing how fast the forests
were returning, the plants popping up, the streams revitalized and even
nearby farmers delighted with their crop output. Apparently modem (agribusiness)
man has forgotten that good soil comes from volcanic rock and not chemistry.
Mount St. Helens demonstrated that God knows what He is doing endcorporale
America only believes it does. It is not that I believe corporale agriculture
is evil, only misguided. Perhaps they can learn from God's volcanoes.

E.A. Vincent in the marvelous
Forces of Nature, edited by Vivian Fuchs, makesonly one statement that
I can take exception tot It is in the first sentence of his masterful dissertation
on volcanoes. He states: "Since
in close quarters, a volcanic eruption is an impressive energetic phenomenon,
but being narrowly localized in space and time (italics added for emphasis).
It is rather superficial on the scale of the whole earth'."
He further elucidates: "As my
professor of geology once remarked to the class of first-year studente
of which Iwas a member, 'Would you conclude from the presence of a boil
on the back of your neck that your whole body was filled with pus?"'
In the above quotes we see the rather peculiar reasoning of a specialist.
No medical person that I know believes that a boil explodes and spreads
across the entire body a fine dusty mist of matter, good or bad_yet this
is precisely what a volcanic explosion of the "boil" on the earth's surface
does. It does indeed affect thousands upon thousands of miles of the earth's
surface. The volcano is a powerful exploding, soil-dispersing "boil."
In the next paragraph Dr. Vincentre deems himself as he states in no uncertain
terms: "Man has always feared
volcanic manifestations as forces beyond his control, bringing death and
destruction. But he has also gradually learned that they may bring some
compensating benefits: rich volcanic soils; deposits of minerale and ores;
endmore recently, potential sources of unstable heat and energy. The very
existence of volcanoes, as of the earthquakes almost invariably associated
with them, indicates that the planet Earth is not a static body but dynamic
organism in a constant state of change and evolution."
Note that he places the words "rich volcanic soil" first, before even the
first love of industry-deposits of minerale and ores!

The physics of volcano formation
is a surface phenomena that follows large earthquakes triggered by a subsurface
movement of what geologists call tectonic plates. The earth is made up
of a numberof such huge platelike platforms floatingon a sea of viscous,
flowing, iron-rich, glassy rock called magma. The more brittlecrust rock
on top moves about separating-colliding and triggering powerfulinteractions
that, over eons of time, effect the physical makeup of the earth's surface.These
moving continental plates are the mountain and ocean builders of time.Volcanic cones usually arise
and form in chains where the denser subsurface mantle rock is carried by
a portion of the molten magma.Theorists believe that the
therrnalenergy required for convective movement within the mantle, end
the melting of the viscous material, is caused by the disintegration of
small amounts of the radioactive elements of uranium, thorium and potassium
contained within the earth surfaces. In other words, complex and terrifying
energies of molten rock generate steam that expands, and under tremendous
pressure, bursts through the surface crust, forming volcanic cones and
spewing out, so to speak, our most fertile soils.
Few realize that if the theorists are correct (and they do make sense),
our earth is one huge soil-forming, atomic-steam powerplant and that a
volcano is in reality the steam explosion of an atomic energy system.
The silicate formed by the partialatomic-steam explosion end then thrown
off by active volcanoes gives rise in atmosphere, where it is cooled, to
a form of rock called basalt.
A moving prate curves down beneath acrust prate where friction, added to
the atomic pump, feeds the melt. This energy cracks the earth under pressure
and carries the liquid basalt rock upward where dust and rock forms the
cone and the folds round the cone.
Of course this is a simplified description of the whole process which in
detail is complex beyond all imagination. It has, however, been researched
by numerous geologists over the years since the German meteorologists.
Alfred Wegener, in a book titled The Origins of Continents and Oceans
( 1915), came upwith what is now known as the tectonic theory of land
(continent.) formation. He was, of course, ridiculed in his own day.Bread from Stones has
been republished in English by Acres U.S.A. It is available for
S10.00 (plus $1.00 postageend handling U.S.; $2.00 foreign).

A page from what was then
called 'soil remineralization a network news letter', the fall/winter 86
issue, I was then living and helping where it is even now (98) still being
made.The cover said: "flying
dust man" Piet "Rotsstof" Bouter......I recently sang a song which
went: "flying dust tying dutch man", so I am still up to my old tricks
I guess.

Caption to a print called
Composting Minerals, reads: Piet Bouter sifting gravelscreening through
a window screen onto compost.
And this is the text accompanying it.

COMPOSTING MINERALSMany people can yet boast
of the ability to buy food. Far less cen take pride in growing it and only
a few people dig all the way down to bed-rockbottom solidity to satisfy
their sense of sustainability and long term vision. They are bound to bring
up rock dust again and again....it is not only the base of organized life
along with water and light but finds one of its most purposeful uses after
that: the creation of organic matter, helping transform and conserve it,
as opposed to what their stray descendants are doing: dumping, wasting
and leaching, suffocating and fouling it, sawing off the limbs they ripened
(and rotted?) on.
There are many ways to apply rock dust to the soil. It can be spread by
hand, by mechanical means, sprayed with a mechanical sprayer end blown
on duringwind stillness (avoid inhaling it)...Improvising with fine mesh
sieves, stockings and wet brushes for small amounts is lots of fun.
Combining rock dust with organic materials in compost can be a good way
to solve application problems. Rock dust assimilates quicker in compost
than in poor soils, where you can expect miracles, but not as quickly.

Composting TipsFor compost Helmut Snoek
recommends 1 lb per3 sq ft on each layer of a 2/3 ft high and a little
less when the dust is extra fine. Don't forget a handful of dirt to innoculate
with organisms and try to keep the N-C ratio 1-10. If there is a lot of
manure around, you can't mix it with rock dust too soon for immediate improvement
of the air and end product. Raw manure is a health hazard til properly
composted. Rock dust ties down and absorbs the volatile ammonia compounds,
40-80% of which can gets lost to the air otherwise.This is why the Swiss bio
farmers spread it in their stables, apart from hoof stability it keeps
the air purerSome remarks from the
Lubkes (soil specialists often appearing in Acres, U.S.A.) on compost:Compost heats up faster
than rock dust. Do not allow to exceed 130 degrees to prevent heat loss.
Rockdust improves aeration end structure end therefore prevents rotting.
Aim for a compost with 30-50% organic material. 60-80 lb of fineground
rock dust per ton of compost is considered optimal.

Rock Dust and compost have
much in common; they are ready food for life's smallest beginnings and
from there on up the whole food chain. To both soil-making life-savers
applies the rules of thumb,if
you ask me the rule of the most common denomination, and therefore
deserving to score highest on any scale of human aspiration (especially
desert(born and/or influenced) cultures)the
more diverse and varied the elements and ingredients, the richer and more
fertile the results (This truth was alluded
to 4 times in the first two episodes of a PBS series called The Making
of a Continent). Multiculturalism is therefore a more valid concept on
microscopic scale than a few notches and 'fieldmagnitudes' with more refined
and diversified ways away.
The
problem is than these borderlines can not ever be drawn sharply cause the
micro-mini-minimal molecules floating down the mountain streams and joining
up down river are perhaps part of one and the same watershed but join forces
with contributions from so many nooks, crannies, folds, valleys and bioregions,
that they are bound to see a lot of compromises since they are not in Kansas
anymore having travelled further afield then most bigger organisms therein
ever do.Piet Bouter

Rock Dust EvangelicalI will churn out some good
tidings of Rockin more than one sense as
I sing alongwith the percussion of rumbling
and snapping gravel,being crushed as a libation
to the soiland to appease the glaciers,
shall we say;they are growing so either
way;crushing action sooner
ratherthan later,if you please, just a question
of doing or suffering.Time comes alive when we
take time to inspire rock.Stop identifying with the
spirit of solid rock,thinking: after me the flood,
over me the glacier.Visualize and broadcast
the vision of rockdustand soon the imperative
act, the one with optimum effect,aiming for greatest happiness
in largest possible numberswill start to select, polish
and/or crushrock's many faces and depths,
spreading the dustthus strained and gained.Does this rock your spirit?Do we see eye to eye on
the inspiration of rock??"True" Piet "rotsstof"
Bouter

John Hamaker is now building
a second prototyperock grinder along the lines of his expiring patent forpersonal
use. Depending on favorable results I suggest we build at least one
more specimen and travel around to open minded farming communities demonstrating
this end the no less remarkable rockdust effect upon application. Thus
leaving a trail of incentives that would make Johnny Appleseed proud to
call us his successors!Practical courses of action
for those who like myself would like to get hands and resources in gear
now,
are to see if there is a local need for the grinder and a suitable source
available from gravel pits or quarries (see
Sand and Gravel in the Yellow Pages).The next
step is to find land in those vicinities to remineralize. I invite comments,
people, means, odds and ends to give shape to this genesis. So far we have
a full time devotee in myself. I volunteer to come and shovel away at any
promising heap, provided there is a morsel of land to spread gravel dust
on and transport toget it there. A truck would also be needed to carry
the grinder. Write me about land, truck and gravel pit or quarry in close
proximity to each other end I will be there. Piet
(contact through SR)

Tune in to Don Weaver
on KPFA RadioOn Saturday evening December
6 at 8.00 p.m., northern California Bay Area listeners can tune in to KPFA,
about 94.1 on the dial and listen to an interview of Don Weaver and evolutionary
biologist Dave Seaborg on how to restore the balance of nature and stabilize
interglacial weather and remineralization.

Upcoming Bulletins Need
FundingThe latest issue of The
Solar Age or Ice Age? Bulletin is in preparation. Don Weaver hopes to have
itout in late November or early December. At the moment there are still
not enough funds available to permitpublication. Support for the next issue
in the way of funds would be greatly appreciated and help Don to continue
the important work he is doing.
Bulletin#9 will include the new Comments by John Hamaker, updates
on climate change, research and more supporting evidence related to the
whole cycle from climate change to remineralization. It will also include
Don's latest article, Solar Age or Ice Age, Which Will You Work For?
SR looks forward to the next Bulletin as an indispensable source book for
TSOC networkers. Your support is much needed now to get the next issue
out. Please consider writing out a donation or advance for a copy of the
Bulletin end put a check in the mail today!
Solar Age or Ice Age? Bulletin #9Please send a minimum
donation of $5.00 to cover the printing end mailing costs ofyour copy of
the #9 Bulletin. Please make checks out to Solar Age or Ice Age? Bulletin
endsend it to Don Weavcr, Hamaker Weaver Publishers, P.O. Box 1961, Burlingame,
CA94010.

HOMEA review of
the book HOME by BrianHutchings end Raleigh Geer shows that practical versatility
leads to rock dust rather sooner than later.Their penetrating intelligence
is a mix of Bucky Fuller's inventiveness, Tim Leary's political diagnoses
and far out vision but with nitty gritty high-ecology technology and lots
of wordplay, for instance DNA=Dwelling Need Advantage.The chapterheads
of the 150 pg large format book are clear enough; 1- Vote, 2- Being end
so on.Chapter 4 is called Frost
end concerns the Hamaker thesis
and remineralization. Chapter 6 deals with PostInterglacial Survival
Techmque For Yourself.A concept which is dealt with in depth,
Cloning
ofEarth, means creating a multiple function space which incorporates
live+work+learn+play end absorbs solarenergy.
The book includes diagrams for building Solar Farms. The contente list
appropriate technology, diet, permaculture, aquaculture, grinder, keyline
water collection, thermal storage, ocean thermal energyconversion, geothermal...
They write also on politica!participation, paying taxes end defense, mess
transit,voluntary simplicity, just about everything for those who wish
to make the earth their Home.
Send your name and address + U.S. $10 (add$2 for 1st class, more overseas)
to: Ra Energy Foundation,
32 Brooks St., Worcester, MA 01606, U.S.A.
Make checks payable to Raleigh Geer or R Brian Hutchings.

Reviewed by
Piet Bouter and J.C. _

Dairy Farming
With Rock Dustby Georg Abermann

Martin Gasteiger
in Unterlohen, Bavaria in Germany has been doing organic farming since
1973 and has reduced the cost dramatically. Yearly he uses10 tons of rock
dust at a cost of about $ 400 a year endhe gets 7000 liters per hectare
(2 1/2 acres) of milk.
His cows become 10 years old or twice theage
of the average cow end have twice as many calves as the average in Bavaria.
How
does Gasteiger manage to be so successful with so little means?
He tries to take as good care of the soil as possible. He fertilizes only
with small amounts of liquid manure, 10 cubic meters per hectare and only
if the soil is dry.
He collects all organic matter from his farm and
household and composts it together with the calves manure, rock dust and
soil and uses this mixture as bacteric nutrients for the field and farmland.
He uses this compost as a bacteria supplier for the field and crop land.
The liquid manure is treated especiallywith rock dust in the stable so
that organic and mineral substances are combined and no toxicity arises.
Then
in a special container, a clay humus mixture is added end it is then aerated.
This clay humus mixture is liquid end mixed in a concrete mixer. Out of
the clay humus brew, every 5-6 days, for every 20-25 cubic meters of liquid
manure, one wheelbarrow of clay humus and some manure compost are added.
Gasteiger says the bacteria in the humus act like an innoculation so that
the rotting bacterie in the liquid manure increase dramatically. The aeration
gives the necessary oxygen and the finely ground clay material in the concrete
mixer and the rock dust have a great active surface that bind toxic elements
so that they cannot interfere with the growth of the bacteria in the liquid
manure. These clay particles also bind nutrients like nitrates so that
they cannot be washed away in the groundwater.
"Instead of buying expensive liquid manure additives, I make my own", says
Martin Gasteiger.
The liquid manure thus treated cannot be compared with the urine and manure.
To prove this Gasteiger holds his hand in the container, washes it off
under cold water without soap and holds it under our noses. There is not
the slightest smell. And besides that it does not harm the soil life nor
does it burn thegrass land, even when the temperature goes above 90 degrees
end above all, the animals like to eat the grass grown. It is
applied only in dry weather under themotto, "little teut often", about
a liter per sq. meter (10sq ft to a meter). He succeeds in taking care
of theearthworms, so they multiply end work for trim. The clover stavs
end manufactures nitro~en throuch the nitrogen collecting bacteria at the
roots of the clover.Per hectare
he adds 5 dt (dt= 1/10 ton) rockdust each year and every three years he
adds 5-10 dt. His rock dust is Diabas, a volcanic rock of 55% selesium
oxide from Kitzbuhl, Austria- with a guaranteed fineness of 0.09 mm end
1/3 of it is under 0.02 mm in size.
An employee of the Bureau of Agriculture of Bavaria commented in an article
on Gasteiger's results very cynically, if he had used conventional fertilizers
with as much enthusiasm, his profit would be just as great!
In response to this published comment 26 people wrote letters to the paper
protesting this offhand comment- brushing aside of Gasteiger's methodeend
success. They pointed out that people like Gasteiger should get all the
help possible as they do something positive end naturel without subsidies!
(Translated by Christian Campe with permission of the author. The article
appeared in Grunland magazine 9128/85)

Progress on
grinder delayedInvestors take note:Bill Trollope has been developing
a prototype which will cost about U.s.$25,000. The prototype always
costs morethan when it is ultimately manufactured.Investors who would
consider funding ofthe prototype should contact Bill Trollope,229 Bobbinhead
Road, Turramurra, NewSouth Wales 2094, Australia. The grinder is made along
the lines of Hamaker's design. John Hamaker'sgrinder, unlike other designs
would notweer out grinding hard rock and need replaceable parts. American
investors contact David Munson, tel.# (214) 6743635 or (214) 986-1558.

Back to Callahan
for some info on his patented and reasonable priced measuring device and
the Glossary with technical terms.

FLOWER POT FARM EXPERIMENTTake two plastic flower
pots. Fill both with potting veilfrom the same bag. One pot should be left
plein. In the otherpot, place a paramagnetic stone or sandpaper model of
a roundtower (15 to 60, proportion of diameter to height) end place itin
the middle of a plastic (non-paramagnetic) flower pot. Takea pack of garden
radish seeds end plant them 1/4 to 1/2 inchdeep, about 3 or 4 seeds per
hole, around the pots. Water each day with the exact same measured amount
of water. Aftereight days of 70-80_ growing temperature, puil them up endweigh
the root's "held in place" soil. The astonishing results demonstrate
plant control by the paramagnetic force. Notehow the roots end veil mimics
the energy force pattern of aman-made radio station (based on weight).
Please note, I do not ask my reader to believe what I say, but I do ask
them to see for themselves.Author's note: Two high
school studente in science fairs won local endstate awards for experiments
based on this work utilizing paramagnetism.BEAMSBelleek radio range.
Patterns secured due to presenee of course-bending antennae.The ELF growth pattern force
of energy focused into theground by the paramagnetic soil, round towers,
or rock cen beeasily plotted by planting radish seeds around the rock,
roundtower, or in veil mixed with ground up rock.
In this red sandstone tower example it will be noted thatthe tower is oriented
with th door facing 95_ eest toward therising sun in mid- September in
Gainesville, Florida . In such asystem, the least energy is to the eest
resulting in slow growthend small plant size and the greatest energy is
to the west producing fast growth end large plant size . Side growth is
intermediate. Such a plot based on plant size end root-dirt weightat an
eight day harvest, is very similar to plots of energy from my World War
II radio range station in Belleek.The largest root growth,
with the most fine rootlets, is at top left to the west of the round tower.
The smallest is at 95_east at the lower right of the photo. The north growth
at the top right is slightly smaller than the south growth at bottom left. Note from compass
that the strongest growth is to the east at 95_, in contrast to tower and
tomb plantings. The higher growth rate and root complex is always off the
sharp corner of such highly paramagnetic rocks. I first noticed this growt
effect while climbing cliffs and searching rock canyons for eagle and falcon
nests as a youth.
Note energy is weak at front entrance and strong along the sides end rear.
This model is of a Vermont megalithic stone structure. Constructed of diamagnetic
wood interior and paramagnetic pink granite exterior. It appears that most
healing/religious structures such as gothic cathedrals, round towers, and
megalithic tombs are facing east so that the week energy is at the entrance
and the strong energy is at the back where the altar of hearing chamber
is located. There is also stronger energy at the sides, wherethe arms of the tomb cross
the main tuinnel as seen in gothic cathedrals.PICRAM, Photonic Ionic Cloth
Radio Amplifier Maser,is my name for the patent (No. 5,247,933) I obtained
for myELF (extremely low frequency) antenne detector. As you censee from
the bottom photo, it is mounted directly on the Tekmeter oscilloscope input
with no leed. On the 5 mV range, it accurately measures ELF atmospheric
waves generated bylightning which are detectable even underground in soil.
These waves stimulate plant root growth.

The PICRAM is constructed
by soaking wool-linen clothor burlap in seawater. In the top photograph,
the doth is connected to a simple banana plug at the corner end wrappedaround
the plastic of the plug where it is held in place by tworubber bands.
Harry Kornburg, my patent co-author, translated the Hebrew which describes
such a piece of cloth worn by the Jewish High Priest. It enhanced his immune
system in order that he could safely examine lepers like those sent to
him by Christ. The bible is by far the best science book for low energy
systems ever written. The Hebrew name for my PICRAM ELF detector is Shatnez.
It was worn as a long ribbon strapwrapped around the high priest's body.
(See Appendix II forcopy of patent)._Dielectric_A nonconductor
of electric charges that undercertain conditions cen be a semiconductor,
insulative substance.

GLOSSARYto the book
'paramagnetism' by Phil CallahanAmplitude_Strength
of an electromagnetic wave, usuallyshows as the height of the wave on an
oscilloscope.Antenna_A metal or
dielectric (insulative) substance fromwhich electromagnetic waves (photons)
are transmitted orreceived.Aperture_The cross-beam
diameter of a focused beam oflight or other photon energy; also the effective
diameter of alens or mirror.C.G.S._Centimeter/grams/second_the
measurement ofthe magnetic flux density (gauss), see text for explanation.Coherent (radiation)_Electromagnetic
radiation in which two or more waves travel in unison which peaks and troughs
togetherClast A fragment
in sedimentary rock.Cleavage The breaking
of some minerale long one or moreregular directions.diamamagnetic Magnetization
in the opposite direction to the applied field, e.g., away from
a magnet. All plant life is diamagnetic.1 12 ParamagnetismDike_ An intrusive
thick vertical sheet of igneous rockwhich cuts across other
types of rock.Doping mixing
a minute amount of one substance into alarge volume of liquid,
gas or solid.ELF-VLF Extremely
low frequency (radio) from 1 Hz to10,000 Hz for ELF, end 10,000
Hz
to the broadcast band forVLF. See the definition
of spectrum in author's
Exploring theSpectrum.Erosion The
disintegration of rock due to wind, water, orsoil, or the movement of
the soil.Fault_A fracture
of the earth's crust.Fiberization_the
ability of the roots of weeds to penetratecompacted veil with the
aid of secreted chemicals.Field_A region in
which a body experiences a force as theresults of the presence
of some other body or bodies.Fold_The plastic
deformation of rock strata.Form_Shape of a mineral
or rock.Fracture_Random way
which minerale break.Gauss_The CGS unit
of magnetic flux density. See CGS.Geode_A rock concentration,
rounded end often hollowwhich contains crystals.Harmonic_An oscillation
having a frequency that is a simple multiple of a fundamental oscillation.Hertz_The unit of
frequencyequal to one cycle per second.Symbol Hz.Igneous rock_Rocks formed
when
volcanic magna solidifies, for example, basalt.Incoherent_Frequency
(cycles) that are out of step, nonresonant.Karni_Japanese term
for the spirit of an object, rock tree,etc.Lava_Molten rock
reaching the earth's surface where it rapidly cools. Fine grained.Magma_Molten rock
beneath the surface of the earth.Magnet_A piece of
magnetic material, e.g. iron, nickel or cobalt, that has been magnetized
end is therefore surrounded by a magnetic field.Mantle_Zone between
the earth's crust end iron-nickelcore.Metamorphic rock_Rock
that has been altered from itsoriginal form by heat end pressure at great
depths.Oolite_Spherical
grains of calcite that builde into limestone.Paramagnetism_The
atoms or molecules of a substancethat have a net orbital or spin magnetic
moment end are capable of being aligned in the direction of the applied
field. (seetext).Photonic_Pertaining
to photons. A photon may be regarded as a unit of radiation (light) energy.
It is a mathematica!conceptrRadio Wave_A wave
for transmitting information in whiclthe medium is long wave electromagnetic
energy (above ELFVLF region).Schist_Type of metamorphic
rock with layerings of mica.Schuman Waves_Long
wave extremely low frequencie(ELF) radio waves in the 8, 14, 21, 27 end
3 3 Hz region. The'are generated by lighting in the atmosphere.Sedimentary rock_Rocks
formed by the accumulation osediments from weathering end erosion.Sensilla_The minute
spines on insects of many diverse shapes that resonate to infrared frequencies
from oscillating molecules.Sill_A horizontal
sheet of intrusive rock injected between layers of sedimentary or metamorphic
rock.Susceptibility_A
magnetic term for the ability of a substance, e.g. rock, to receive end
transmit magnetic fields fronthe cosmos.Vein_A more or less
upright deposit of minerale that cut through other rock.Volcano_A vent in
the earth's crust through which magma gasses, and volcanic ash are ejected.Waveguide_A substance
that guides radiation, e.g. light, radio, etc., along its axis with very
little energy loss.Yang_The male (+)
force in Chinese lore.Yin_The female (-)
force in Chinese lore.